Are Man Utd showing any signs of progress under Amorim?

Manchester United’s slow start to the season has increased the pressure on head coach Ruben Amorim, who has won only 25.8% of his Premier League games in charge.

The Reds have just two victories from their past 13 top-flight matches and produced another lacklustre display in Sunday’s 3-0 loss to neighbours Manchester City.

Despite the growing external unease around Amorim, not helped by the derby defeat, senior officials remain fully supportive of the Portuguese.

Some of their underlying stats do actually reveal a modest improvement in the past six months but this has often been undermined by issues in both boxes. Since the start of March, United have scored nine fewer goals than would be anticipated based on the quality of chances they create (their expected goals figure, excluding penalties) and conceded 3.4 more, figures indicative of wasteful finishing and uncertain goalkeeping.

Since 1 March, United have recorded a fairly respectable non-penalty expected goal difference, with only seven sides faring better.

The problem for Amorim is that it isn’t translating to on-field results. His side have accumulated just 13 points in this period which, along with West Ham, is the joint-lowest total of any ever-present Premier League club.